In a state­ment is­sued on Sun­day, Kur­dis­tan Re­gion Pres­i­dency said that the post of the Iraq Pres­i­dency be­longs to the Kurds.

“We would like to in­form the people of Kur­dis­tan and the Iraqi po­lit­i­cal par­ties that the post of the Iraq Pres­i­dency is a right for the people of Kur­dis­tan and we will do what­ever it takes to de­fend this right. Fur­ther­more, any can­di­date for this po­si­tion must have the ap­proval of the Iraqi Kur­dis­tan Par­lia­ment.”